Primary School recommendations NW6

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can anyone recomend a good primary school near NW6, i am looking at St Mary's CoE Primary Kilburn, Kingsgate Primary & Emmanuel CoE Primary - need to hear some inside info and what's the best school local to NW6??? (Ofsted reports are helpful but don't give the full picture) Any info you have on Primary Schools near Kilburn High Road, in Camden would be really helpful...Many thanks.

Hi, we left Kilburn when our DD was 2 because we were worried about the primary schools we had on offer.
St. Mary's is meant to be excellent now (was good when we left and we were not church goers and would have had to attend Sunday school for a minimum of 6 months to qualify). I know parents who have their kids there and are very happy with it. I used to know a governor there too who said it was outstanding. That was 2 years ago.
Emmanual is (at least on paper) meant to be outstanding, but unless you live in the playground, virtually impossible to get into, as they take a very small number per year. It's also stricter than St.Mary's so you have to worship locally for a year or more to qualify for entry.
St. Eugene de Mazenod is meant to have a good reputation - but you need to be a Catholic family.
Kingsgate, at least when we were local 2 years ago, was dire - hang around the school gates at pick-up time to get a feel for what I mean!
Good idea to do this for every school to see what impression it gives you.
Visit the schools too. - it makes such a difference. we read Ofsted reports til they came out of our ears, yet one outstanding school in Primrose Hill turned out to be horrendous on visiting it...whilst others judged only 'good' were very impressive.
Oftsed gives us a benchmark of some sort to go by, as you say, but are neither always accurate nor true to life.
Good luck!